Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-06-20

Its another kind of rose he's after.
muttered Jonas with a sardonic grin.
The pleasant bow and smile that accom-
panied Edgar's words would have founC
their way to almost any other heart, but
they only added fuel to the irate spinster',
fury and Indignation.
go into the house this instant. Ruth,
she shrieked. As for you. young man,
she added, turning to Edgar. and making
a fierce lunge at him with her cane II
policeman.
With a glance of compassion at the re-
treating girl, and a ditto of defiance at
Jonas, who seemed to be enjoying his dis.
comfiture hugely, Edgar walked of.
After this Ruth was never allowed to
stir abroad without her aunt or Polly, the
old domestic, at her heels.
Poor Ruth! these were sorrowful DAYS
for her. Sometimes she caught a glimpse
of Edgar in the distance, but never dared
to look twice at him.
But one day Polly and her mistress
went out, taking the precaution, however,
to lock the doors after them. And "a
Ruth sat, with her sewing lying upon her
knee, and her heart far away, the object
of her thoughts suddenly made his APP
pearance through the open window.
Ruth was in a perfect tremor of delight
and alarm.
If my aunt should return and find you
here :" she cried, as she blushingly re-
leased herself from his arms.
I don't care if she does" said Edgar,
taking a seat upon the sofa, and drawing
Ruth down beside him. The old ogress
What does she say about me, Ruth? What
terrible crime does she charge me with
She says you are "a man." faltered
Ruth, as she hid her eyes on her lover :
shoulder.
And so I am" returned the young
man, laughing. And never so rejoiced
in that self-same fact until knew you,
darling. I could not love you half so
well if l were a woman :"
Ruth hardly knew what to say in reply
to this logic, but she knew that she was
very happy seated by his side, with his
arm round her, and wished that it was
not so f1eeting.
In this way, Edgar continued to have
several interviews with Ruth, unknown to
any one except Jonas Quimby, who slyly
watched the pair, chuckling over the GER
tainty that it gave him of inheriting his
cousins long-coveted estate.
The lovers laid many plans to bring
about the realization of their mutual
wishes. but none of them seemed feasible.
And finally death saved them any further
trouble by suddenly foreclosing the long
mortgage he had held upon Ruth's grim
old guardian.
Miss Pringle left a will, in which she
bequeathed her whole estate, both real
and personal, to her niece Ruth. But TO
this was added the following singular
codicil;
Whereas it has long been my settled
conviction that every man. born on the
facp e tho earth. i cruel. S'~~----- .
treacherOus, III 49, my niece, Ruth Prln-
gle, marries any such, the property devils
ed to her in the above will shall go to my
cousin, Jonas Quimby, to him and his
heirs, and forever"
But despite this, Edgar and Ruth were
quietly married a few weeks after, TO Jo-
mas Quimby's great satisfaction, who i'm
mediately made formal demand for the
estate.
4 don't see what right you have to it, .
said Ruth's husband coolly. The will
runs, in case she marries any man born
on the face Of the earth"
ITO be sure" responded Jonas, rubbing
his hands together with an air of salts
faction, THAT is the way the old lady had
of expressing herself. l suppose that
you were born on the face Of the earth,
wasn't you?' he added jOcOsely.
Not bit Of it, my good sir. BY what
l now consider a fortunate accident,
was born in the mines Of C-nearly
half a mile beneath it; my parents having
made descent into them on that event
full day. and which resulted in my unex-
pected and undesired appearance upon
the stage Of life. True, don't remember
anything about it myself, but there is a
lady sitting yonder who does, and whose
testimony ought TO be pretty conclusive. -
Mrs. Haven smilingly cOrrOborated her
sons statement. But strange TO say, Jo-
mas wasn't satisfied. swearing that it was
nothing but trick to wrong him out Of
his rightful Inheritance. And 50 the will
was contested
Now whether the court was attracted
by the fine-lOoking young couple on one
side. or repulsed by the sour-visaged old
bachelor on the other, or was Influenced
By the legal technicalities which 50 often
override the real wishes Of the testatOr,
certain it is that it decided in favor Of the
former, arguing that, whereas the lega-
tee did not marry a man born on the face
of the earth, but half a mile beneath il,
she did not forfeit the condition under
which she inherited her aunt's estate"
A decision which gave great satisfac-
ton to the public generally, and We hope
to the reader
messenger boy, who came 70 Lafay-
ette avenue the other day found young